Civil War American
Is is true during the American Civil War the South were Scotch-Irish & North Unionists were Irish Catholics?
Am from UK and am studying American History.
Were most Southern-Americans in the American Civil-War Protestants of Ulster-Scots dscent? or were there other groups such as the English-Americans?
Also is it true some Southern Scotch-Irish made friends with the Unionists Irish Catholics or were they enemies because of Religion and cultural differences?
thanks.
You know, that never crossed my mind but it certainly seems that way, doesn’t it?
These famous, top ranking Confederates were all Scotch-Irish.
Jefferson Davis (Confederacy President)
Nathan Bedford Forrest (Confederate General)
Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson (Confederate General)
J.E.B. Stuart (Confederate General)
There was only ONE Union Scotch-Irish on that list, Ulysses S Grant (President) .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Scotch-Irish_Americans
Then you have all the famous Scotch-Irish “Whiskey Boys” in Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
Every single one of them was Scotch-Irish, traditional bourbon distillers.
There were a lot of them too!
The Whiskey Rebellion almost turned into a full blown mini-war and the government had to send in the army of a couple thousand troops to crush it.
Georgia actually had a LAW prohibiting Catholics to settle there.
The South was NOT a very ‘Catholic Friendly’ place
Look at this list of famous Scotch-Irish Southern County / Western entertainers;
Loretta Lynn, (singer)
Reba McEntire, (musician,actress)
Hank Williams (singer)
Tammy Wynette (singer)
Ricky Skaggs, (singer)
Alison Krauss, (musician)
Dolly Parton (1946 – ) country singer, songwriter, composer, author and actress
Elvis Presley (musician,actor)
Charley Pride (Musician)
Crystal Gayle, (singer)
Merle Haggard, (musician)
Faith Hill, (singer)
You would be hard-pressed to find a handful of Catholics in the South during the Civil War ….. except for Florida, Louisiana, and Texas, all of which which Spanish or French and traditionally Catholic.
Even recently when I lived in Virginia, of all places, there were more Jewish synagogues than Catholic churches in town.
On the other hand …… Maryland was FULL of Catholics, since it was founded FOR Catholics.
So was Massachusetts.
Boston and New York harbors were the closest ports in the US from Ireland.
Both ports were receiving hundreds, if not thousands, of Irish Catholics daily during the Civil War.
One of the first Union units to march through Atlanta was entirely Irish Catholic.
The area of the State Capital building in Atlanta was one of the only places that didn’t get burned.
The old block had the only Catholic Church in the entire state besides Savannah during the Civil War …. so there were TWO Catholic Churches in Georgia ….. anyway, as the troops were marching down the road the Catholic priest saw that they carried a Massachusetts banner and he ran out to them.
He told the Union soldiers that if they burned the churches, they would surely burn in hell.
Being the good Irish Catholic boys they were, they refused to burn them.
It is a funny local secret that St Paul’s Catholic Church has a small brass memorial on its brick wall partly hidden from site to the Irish Catholic Union unit that didn’t burn the churches.
It honestly never crossed my mind but YES, the Southeast did have Irish-Catholics BUT not very many and it had an extremely large Scot-Irish population.
While the Northeast with Maryland, Boston, and New York had an enormous Irish-Catholic population at the time of the American Civil War due to the mass migration from the Irish Potato Famine.
Very interesting, thanks for posting the question.
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